On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Stephen Pair wrote:
> 
> And!  Better yet, if you drop the requirement to use "self" when sending
> messages to the receiver you could write quite elegant procedural code!  For
> example (vertical bars used for clarity):
> 
> [ output: aString | Transcript show: aString; cr ].
> [ printName | output: 'George P. Burdell' ].
> [ printAddress | output: '555 North Avenue' ].
> printName
> printAddress.
> 
> But, now I'm just being silly!

OTOH the above looks like it could become a declarative ST80 syntax,
something like this:

MyClass methods: {
  [ name: aString | name :=  aString ].
  [ name | ^name ].
  [ sayHi | Transcript show: 'Hello ', name; cr].
}

  -Bert-